"If his eyes are prominent, we say that he is immodest, loquacious and
stupid."

"He whose eyes are mobile and sharp is a deceiver, crafty and a
thief."

"He whose eyes are large and tremulous is lazy and a braggart
(_spaciosus?_), and fond of women."

and so forth for an entire page of the Compendium.

Actual diseases of the eye are discussed in chapters on pain in the
eyes, ophthalmia, pannus (including ungula, egilops and cataract),
tumors of the conjunctiva, itching of the eyes, lachrymation, cancer,
diseases of the cornea and uvea, diseases of the eyelids, lachrymal
fistula and entropion. The treatment consists generally in ointments
and collyria in abundance, but in fistula lachrymalis incision and
tents of alder-pith, mandragora (_malum terrae_), briony, gentian,
etc., are recommended, and entropion is referred directly to the
surgeon.

The Latin term cataracta (also catarracta and catarractes) is
applied to a disease of the eyes by Gregory of Tours (Hist.
Franc., v. 6) as early as A.D. 650, and again by Constantine
Africanus, of the school of Salernum, in 1075 (De Chirurg.,
cap. XXX). Singularly the word is not found in the "Chirurgia"
of Roger of Parma, from whom Gilbert seems to have borrowed
most of his surgical knowledge. Nor is it employed by
Roland, Roger's pupil and editor. It recurs, however, in the
_Glossulae Quatuor Magistrorum_ (about 1270). But in all these